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(FILES) This file photo taken on February 25, 2016 shows a police officer as he patrols the area in front of the US Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
The US Supreme Court has a clutch of major decisions coming up on hot-button issues like immigration, birth control and affirmative action -- but with only eight justices instead of nine, those rulings could be more complicated than ever.A political fight is raging between Democratic outgoing President Barack Obama and the Republican-controlled Senate over filling the vacancy created by the death of conservative justice Antonin Scalia in February.
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